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WHITE PRIVILEGE DOESN’T FEAR PLATITUDES WHICH IS WHY
BLACK LIVES DO NOT MATTER

Last week, Eric Harris, an unarmed
black man, fled when the Tulsa police jumped out of their car, guns drawn. Less
than a minute later, Eric Harris lay face down on the ground bleeding and crying out
“oh shit man, he shot me, he shot me! Oh, he shot me!” One Tulsa police officer
puts his knee on Harris’s head and tells Harris to “shut the fuck up.”

Then, when
Harris moans “I’m losing my breath,” another Tulsa police officer says, “fuck
your breath.” The cop turns and smiles at Robert
Bates, the 73-year-old insurance executive and wealthy supporter of the
sheriff’s department who shot Harris. One hour later, Eric Harris was
pronounced dead. Like Otis Byrd and Lennon Lacey, Eric Harris was another
victim of a premeditated lynching.

Eugene
Stovall, Oakland, California, April 16, 2015

Visiting
Oakland on Thursday, April 9, 2015 , Cornel West recalled the death of Oscar
Grant at the hands of a BART police officer in 2009. West then discussed the
recent murder of Walter Scott, the unarmed black man, shot dead by a police officer
in Charleston, South Carolina. West then asks the rhetorical question: When Will Black Lives Matter? And in
response, his largely Negro audience assembled at Allen
Tenple Baptist Church bobs their heads up and down and made muttering sounds
that some hoped might be taken as words of wisdom. The assembled audience which
included Oakland’s clergy were happy with the outpouring of pious platitudes
and even happier that no one dared to question why America’s first “black” president and his “black” attorney general has not done
anything about the serial killings that have been the hallmark of the Obama
administration.

“PLATITUDES
ARE ALL THEY EXPECT OF ME…”

In the 1984 movie, Mass
Appeal, Jack Lemmon plays Father Tim Farley, the likeable pastor of an
affluent suburban Catholic Church. By delivering folksy homilies filled with practical advice and
funny jokes, Father Tim maintains
a close relationship with his congregation while adhering to diocesan policies
governing his pastoral duties. Sidestepping issues that might make his congregation
uncomfortable, Father Tim was known for his repertoire of charm, harmless white
lies, and inane jokes. With his repertoire platitudes, Father Tim kept well
within the boundaries of what his bishop and his congregation expected the
pastor.When a young seminarian
criticizes his pastor for failing to take on a controversial issue impacting
his congregation, Father Tim retorts that platitudes are all that are expected
of him. The preachers attending Cornel West’s Allen Temple lecture would also
agree that platitudes are all that is expected of them

___ and
very little more.

MAKING AMERICA A 'WHITE MAN'S
COUNTRY'

According
to Lacy Ford, professor of history at the University of South Carolina, the
wrenching journey from Old South to New finds its continuity in the timeless
commitment of white southerners to the common cause of white supremacy. Lacy
insists that the theme of southern history is one of resolve, indomitably
maintained, that the South and, indeed, the entire United States is and shall
remain a white man's country.

Hunter Wallace,
a popular right wing blogger, explains:

Virginia was
a White Republic. South Carolina was a White Republic. Kentucky was a White
Republic. Alabama was a White Republic. The Confederacy was a league of White
Republics.The Ku Klux Klan fought to
overthrow Reconstruction and restore the White Republic. The White Citizens’
Councils sprung up in the 1950s to fight integration and to preserve and defend
the White Republic.From 1865 until 1965, Dixie was the “White
Republic” within the United States. The 14th Amendment was nullified here and
the Democratic Party was explicitly the party of white supremacy.

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Throughout
its
history, America has been maintained as a white man’s country ____ even
during
the presidency of a Negro. And white rule has been maintained through
America’s
distinct tradition of violence. In his inaugural speech, Governor George
Wallace recalled for his supporters the fight their forefathers waged
when the South was attacked by carpetbagger and federal troops.
Nigras wanted to have the same rights as white men, Wallace reported.
“Our
forefathers won then and now it is our turn to fight.”

Indeed, over the past fifty years, the deadly struggle over
full rights of citizenship has been expanded all over the United States. White
arch-segregationists have chosen a cadre of Negro leaders and placed them in
academia, political offices and most importantly in the pulpit to support the policy
of white privilege. With support of their Negro servants, whites have a declared
policy not negotiate, but to infiltrate, intimidate and assassinate. During the
month of March, alone, white policemen have murdered over a hundred people. So
confident is white supremacy in its power that when Otis Byrd, a black man, was
found hanging on a tree near his home in Port Gibson, Mississippi, the white
press echoed the official line of the Justice Department: Otis Byrd was not a
victim of a lynching, he committed
suicide.

When the body of
Otis Byrd was found hanging from a tree near his home in Port Gibson,
Mississippi, on March 19, 2015, Obama’s Justice Department under a ‘lame duck’
attorney general, working with Mississippi’s County Sheriff, issued a
preliminary finding that the black man lynched
himself. Quickly ordering the black man’s body cremated, the Mississippi
Sheriff announced that the family and friends of Otis Byrd needed to be patient
and allow the authorities do their job. “Do not feed into the foolishness and hearsay,”
the sheriff said. Just because a black man is found hanging from a tree does
not mean he was lynched.

Addressing this
travesty, Claiborne County Supervisor Edwin Smith said: "I'd like to
apologize on behalf of the county. These people deserve action. We've been
disrespected. If they can look at a satellite and get your tag number, we can surely get some closure on
this." But this is merely a 21st century platitude. It is
exactly what the Negro leaders will repeat and their followers will believe ___
Negro leaders something to say. The Negroes want closure, not justice. They
want the lynching of Otis Byrd to be swept away; they are not interested in identifying
and prosecuting Byrd’s murderers. All the while, the white folks in Claiborne
County, Mississippi know who done it ____
and some of the Negroes know, too.

The national
chair of the New Black Panther Party, Krystal Muhammad, led a Saturday afternoon
community meeting on the Claiborne County courthouse steps. "We know that
Otis Byrd was lynched," she said. "We're not going to let it just be
a cover-up. We went and looked at the scene ourselves. It's impossible that he
lynched himself, and we're not going to let Mississippi get away with their old
Mississippi ways."

On August 28, 2014, lynching of Lennon Lacy got even less
attention. Authorities in Bladenboro, North Carolina, said that the black
teenager left his home late one evening and hung himself. When the white police found
Lacy’s body, they took no photos or measurements. They turned away the coroner
and ordered that no autopsy be conducted. The Bladenboro cops knew who murdered
Lennon Lacy. The family knows Lennon Lacy did not commit suicide. But neither
our ‘black’ president, nor his Justice Department is interested in
investigating the lynching of a black man. Attorney General Eric Holder’s
Justice Department expects Negroes to accept the government cover up of these
lynchings ____ what Barack Obama has called during his presidential campaigns ‘perceived
injustices.’

AMERICA DOES NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS ___ AMERICA
MURDERS THEM

On February 12, 2015, Fox News articulated America’s policy
for dealing with threats to white privilege on its news program, Happening Now: “You’ve got to kill
them…You’ve got to kill them all.”

White privilege is the bedrock upon which America’s national
honor, cultural values and political unity is based. From its very foundation,
America has abhorred negotiation; preferring instead intimidation. Threats to white
people ___ who believe they are the perennial victims ___ are met with
violence, legal or extra-legal. The American creed is: America does not negotiate with _____, American policy is to kill them.
A short study shows how this American creed has been applied throughout history.

America did not
negotiate with Indians,
American policy was to kill them.
America did not negotiate with Spainards,
American policy was to kill them.
America did not negotiate with the Barbary
pirates, American policy was to kill them.
America did not negotiate with representatives
of the First Philippine Government, American policy was to kill
them.
America did not negotiate with Japanese,
American policy was to kill them.
America did not negotiate with Vietnamese,
American policy was to kill them.
America did not negotiate with Grenadians
– the inhabitants of a tiny Caribbean Island, SE of Puerto Rico,
American policy was to kill them.
America did not negotiate with Panamanians,
American policy was to kill them…
and today,
America does not negotiate with black
people, American policy is to kill them.

HBCUs ROLE

If black people
at any time in the future want to stand on their feet instead of crouching on
their knees, some intelligent behavior is necessary. Although it might be far
too much for their fragile resources, especially since they are so reliant on
white philanthropy, the HBCUs are the only resource available to take on the
task. It is really important to know what all these murdered black men have in
common ___ besides being black and unarmed. Moreover, black people need to know
what the NAACP negotiated with the Ku Klux Klan in their several well-publicized
meetings as well as in their many more unpublicized ones. If black people had a
real leader in the White House, foundations, endowments and nationally
recognized research organizations would already have mounted a major effort to
find out who and what is behind the serial killings of black people throughout
this country. But now the undertaking falls to the HBCUs. Would that black
scholars had the intellectual capability and moral commitment required to take
on the challenge. But in the meantime, Obama is preparing to give black people
the most insulting platitude of all: Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

JOBS FOR WHITES; POVERTY FOR
BLACKS

Obama has been amazing at
creating jobs for whites for which blacks need not apply. This is not an
accident. Obama made a pre-election promise that whites need not fear that an
Obama administration would give blacks special privileges or jobs. But he
failed to mention that under his administration, black voting rights would be restricted
and cities with black majorities ___ like Detroit ___ have been stripped of
their political rights. Without legal authorities, private interests have swooped
in and cannibalized everything of value including the pensions of retired city
employees. Under Obama, America’s top manufacturers have increased their
profits by using the involuntary labor of pool found in the government-funded private
prison industry. The recent lynching of a black man in Mississippi barely got
any attention, demonstrating that, in the Obama years, a black life really doesn’t
matter. Yet, the lives of some proper Negroes apparently do.

MEDIA JOBS FOR PROPER NEGROES

There are many employment
opportunities for the right kind of Negroes ___ especially in the media. A
recent study conducted by a research team led by sociologist David Pedulla at
the University of Texas found that gay black men were more likely to get a job
and earn a higher salary than straight black men. Jonathan Capehart’s recent
diatribe against Ben Carson “gay is a choice” remark suggests that his success
as a Washington Post and MSNBC journalist results from his choice to identify with
his “gay” rather than his “black” community. The mainstream media must promote
the image of the “happy darkie.” It is a key ingredient of the “American Way of
Life.” Objective black journalists cannot break into the media, but ‘proper negroes’
are always needed ____ and available. So Fox News saw the appeal that MSNBC’s
Al Sharpton generated in the Negro religious community and decided to win over
the churchgoing Negroe market. Why not? The pastors of black mega-churches have
millions, while their congregations are incredibly poor. The principle of
exploitative capitalism is a key element of right-wing conservatism.. Fox News
would love to reach out to the membership of black churches like these:

World Changers International
non-denominational church in Manhattan was founded by the Creflo Augustus
Dollar, Jr. As a televangelist pastor,
Creflo Dollar has a net worth of $27 million .

New Birth Baptist Missionary
Church in Lithonia, Georgia compensates its senior pastor, Eddie Long, $3.07 million, annually, from his non-profit
charity, Bishop Eddie Long Ministries Inc. The average annual income of a New
Birth Baptist Missionary Church parishioner is $25,154.

The Potter’s House is a
non-denominational mega-church in Dallas, Texas with about 30,000 members and
Bishop Thomas Dexter Jakes, Sr. is the pastor of Potter’s House. The Trinity Broadcasting Network and BET both
air T.D. Jakes’ services and evangelistic sermons. The Texas pastor’s net worth
is $18 million. The median income of the Potter’s House congregation is
$56,954.

So to appeal to the religious
Negro market, Fox News added Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King
Jr., to its network news division. Alveda King who is closely allied to
conservative Catholics like Paul Ryan has appeared on Fox News in the past. Praising
King for her anti-abortion activism and her right wing conservatism, Fox News says
King will provide social and cultural commentary, selling right wing conservatism,
on daytime and prime-time Fox News programs.

MARCHING ACROSS THE EDMUND
PETTUS BRIDGE

Nothing demonstrates the
limited imagination of black leadership than its periodic marching back and
forth, in front of TV cameras whenever the occasion presents itself. They seem
to believe that being seen on TV will somehow will fix the problem.. Most
recently, urged by the producers of Selma, Negro political, social and religious
leaders paraded across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to re-enact the historic Selma march
that took place 50 years ago. This event rivals even Jonestown as the prime
example of collective hubris.

The first thing the Selma
marchers saw crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge was a billboard honoring the founder
of the Ku Klux Klan. On the billboard under the Confederate flag are the words,
“Keep the skeer on ‘em!” All along the March route were found copies of the
flyer distributed throughout Selma’s neighborhoods by Robert Jones, the grand
dragon of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK. The flyer reminded the marchers
that the klan still existed and was still recruiting. The grand dragon’s message resonates with
Selma’s citizens. Selma is among Alabama’s poorest communities with 40 percent
of families living below the poverty line. Violent crime in Selma is five times
the state average. Nothing has changed for blacks in Selma since 1965 and the
whites still heed William Bedford Forrest’s advice to “Keep the skeer on ‘em!” But
as fearful and violent as life is for Selma’s black community today, imagine
what it must have been like 50 years ago in 1965 ____ after the television and
news reporters left and the rich and powerful white politicians and religious
leaders left and all the black civil rights leaders and volunteers left and
Martin Luther King Jr, himself left taking with him the hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of food, clothing and cash, donations solicited for the people
of Selma. Imagine what life was like for blacks as the KKK put the “skeer on em.”
And now, fifty years later, the same hedonistic jerks come marching back across
the Edmund Pettus Bridge again.

US SENATOR, COREY BOOKER MODELS
A POTENTIAL “SINGLE PAYER” COALITION?

Last month, Congressman
Tulsi
Gabbard, D-Hawaii and Senator Corey Booker, D- New Jersey, two
high-profiled
congressional Democrats attended a secretive conference of right-wing
mega-donors, sponsored by the conservative American Enterprise
Institute. These two freshmen represent a new-style of democratic
party politics and were selected to participate the conference because
of their
demonstrated willingness to work with the Republican congressional
leadership. Most
recently, Tulsi Gabbard signaled her willingness to ‘play ball’ with the
Republicans with her well-publicized attendance at the Netanyahu
Washington
speech. Even before rising up to his senate seat, as Mayor of Newark,
Corey
Booker was known to serve business interests. Booker and Gabbard sat
down with
such as Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Paul Ryan along with their moneymen.
Since neither
the press nor the public were admitted, we may not know what deals were
made.
However, chances are that Congressman Gabbard and Senator Booker did not
discuss the need for a “Single Payer Heath Care System.”